19 Apr 2024
Thursday 3 May 2018 - 14:43
Story Code : 303501

Algeria summons Morocco envoy over Iran claims



Press TV - Algeria has summoned Moroccos ambassador over allegations that its embassy in Rabat was involved in alleged Iranian support for a West Saharan separatist movement.

Moroccos ambassador has been received today by the Secretary General at the foreign ministry who rejected the unfounded remarks, ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

A day earlier, Morocco cut its diplomatic ties with Tehran, claiming that the Iranian Embassy in Rabat would lendsupport to the Western Sahara Polisario separatist militants.

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, in 1975, and since then the territory has been the subject of a dispute between Rabat and the Polisario Front.

The movement, whichaims to end Moroccos presence in the Saharan region, recently said they sought to set up a capital in the region, prompting Rabat to caution it would respond with force.



Morocco said the Iranian Embassy would extend the support to the militants via the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah's members.

Hezbollah has also strictly rejected the allegation, saying in a statement that Morocco had decided to cut ties with Iran under American, Israeli and Saudi pressure.

The Saudi Arabia-dominated [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council, which groups Persian Gulf's Arab littoral states, has, however, supported Morocco's accusations.

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